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April 4, 2008
Posted by Will Luke on 04/04/2008 in USA
New York schools swap baseball for cricket

An excellent piece in today's Daily Telegraph highlights the growing interest of cricket among schoolchildren in New York:

Impressed by numbers of white-clad young players in the city's parks at weekends, New York's Department of Education has set up a league, with about 600 state secondary school students playing. Announcing its decision, the department said New York was the first and only state school system in America to offer competitive cricket.

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Posted by: raj at April 4, 2008 11:49 PM

NY and USACA cricket should have done this 10 years ago. go to Kansas...There is an Aussie guy by name Fox. He has been promoting Cricket in school for over 5 years that too among American born kids.

Posted by: Marcus at April 5, 2008 9:10 AM

Does anyone know the details of the planned international game? Namely, who it will be between, and what format it'll be in?

Posted by: Adam Scholem at April 8, 2008 6:23 PM

The local authorities in Florida keep talking about an international fixture for their new park, but so far no one has heard from anyone else. I would take the announcement with a grain of salt.

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